Tammy Nobles is the still-grieving mother of Kayla Marie Hamilton, a 20-year-old woman diagnosed with autism who, in 2022, was killed in a horrific manner by an illegal immigrant suspected of being in MS-13. Now, Ms. Nobles is, with the help of lawyer Brian Claypool, bringing a massive, $100 million lawsuit against the Biden Administration over the negligence that she claims let to Kayla’s death.
As background, Ms. Nobles was one of the Angel Moms who testified before the House Committee on Homeland Security on January 18th about the horrific results of the Biden Border Crisis. During her comments on the matter, Ms. Nobles described her daughter and her daughter’s horrible death at the hands of an illegal immigrant gang member who should have been incarcerated rather than released into America.
Speaking about her horrific experience with Biden’s border, Ms. Nobles began by introducing her now-deceased daughter. She said, “July 24th, 2002, was one of the best days of my life. I gave birth to a beautiful baby girl and named her Kayla Marie. She loved to smile and laugh. She always kept her friends close and never forgot anyone. She was kind, caring, thoughtful and funny. She loved life and God. She showed the world that being yourself was ok and you didn’t have to follow everyone else.”
She then described what happened to her “beautiful baby girl,” saying, “But sadly, on July 27th, 2022, I received the worst news that a parent doesn’t want to hear that my newly 20-year-old daughter Kayla Hamilton was murdered in her own room and left on the floor like trash. The illegal MS-13 known gang member brutally raped and murdered my daughter by strangling her with a cord and robbed her of $6.00.”
Continuing with her gut-wrenching rendition of events, Ms. Nobles added, “During the attack Kayla called her boyfriend for help but went to voicemail. The voicemail of the murderer strangling Kayla was 2 minutes and 30 seconds long.”
She then went on to note that the DHS had failed to conduct even a basic inspection of Kayla’s murderer when they detained him at the border and that such an inspection would have revealed his MS-13 ties. She said, “DHS employees failed to visually inspect the assailant by lifting his shirt to check for gang related tattoos. Had DHS employees performed a visual inspection of the assailant’s body, they would have seen MS-13 gang related tattoos on his body, disqualifying him from entering the U.S. DHS employees failed to make a simple phone call to the El Salvador government to verify if assailant was on an MS-13 gang affiliation list. Had they done so, El Salvador government officials would have confirmed that the assailant was a known MS-13 gang member with a prior criminal history.”
She then further described where DHS acted “negligently and recklessly” in its administration of the US-Mexico border, telling the committee, “DHS supervisors had failed to train and supervise DHS employees to properly screen minors attempting to enter US soil from El Salvador. The operational neglect committed by DHS carried over into DHHS whose operational neglect further sealed my daughter’s fate. DHHS’s operational neglect included its employees violating clearly articulated protocol requiring a minor to be placed with a “verified” relative before entering the US. DHHS employees neglected and recklessly failed to verify a legitimate family member of the assailant or sponsor before allowing him to enter U.S. soil. There were clear inconsistencies in the DHS and DHHS records regarding the identity of the relative to whom the assailant was released.”
And, giving yet more flavor to those failures, she said, “Ultimately, DHHS’s failures allowed the MS-13 gang member, as a minor, to rent a room in a trailer park from another individual who was also an illegal immigrant. There was also a lack of transparency by DHS and DHHS, including but not limited to DHHS failure to provide House of Representative Chairman Jim Jordan a copy of its audit report.” Watch her testimony here:
That testimony was important, as it reflected the basis for how Ms. Nobles aims to hold Team Biden accountable: through the legal services of Mr. Claypool, she wants to hold it accountable for its negligence and her daughter’s wrongful death. “We bring this landmark lawsuit in honor of Kayla to get answers on how this catastrophic failure occurred and help prevent another senseless murder,” Brian Claypool said.
Mr. Claypool, tweeting about the suit and why he is helping Ms. Nobles with it, spoke about his being a father and feeling the need to defend his children and America’s children, children like Kayla, as a result. He said, “I am a single dad of a teen daughter and I cannot sit and watch our kids lives be put in danger by political leadership devoid of a soul.”
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